Americque By Jan Van Kessel “The Elder” (1626-1679), Dutch Brazil.
"It contains two Brazilian figures based on the paintings of Brazilian ‘Tapuya’ Indians made by the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout in 1641-43, a third Ameridian figure in the foreground, wearing a headdress and a skirt of red feathers, and various fauna and flora taken from Piso and Markgraf’s Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, Yet the scene is not fully American either; it includes a set of Javanese gamelan gongs, Japanese armor and arms, and shells wich are either Indo-Pacific or pantropical.” - Peter Mason
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